Better Spending Couch Potato Investing Income & Wealth How Much Is A Future Year Worth? There are two kinds of people in this world. Spenders. And Savers. There is no By Scott Burns / July 22, 2012
Better Spending Income & Wealth The Lower Ninety Raw numbers can be striking. While Occupy Wall Street has focused on the 1 percent By Scott Burns / June 17, 2012
Better Spending Couch Potato Investing Income & Wealth What Las Vegas Can Teach Us About Mutual Fund Investing When you go to Las Vegas one of the important things to know is what By Scott Burns / June 10, 2012
Better Spending Income & Wealth The Forty-Year Train Wreck The cover of the 2011 annual report for Amtrak, our government-owned passenger train service, celebrates By Scott Burns / May 27, 2012
Couch Potato Investing There Is Nothing Quite Like the Assurance of Failure Should any of us own a managed bond mutual fund? Should any of us everown By Scott Burns / May 20, 2012
Retirement Social Security Taxes For the Real Condition of Social Security & Medicare, Turn to Appendix F Can you spell i-c-e-b-e-r-g? Well, we’ve hit one and our ship is taking on water. By Scott Burns / May 6, 2012
Better Spending Social Security Life: How Much Will You Leave On the Table? How would you like to double your retirement spending? Well, Michael Finke is working on By Scott Burns / April 8, 2012
At Large Consumption Smoothing Income & Wealth In Retirement, Should You Eat Dessert First? Play now, die later? Most new retirees face that vexing question. They’ve got their bucket By Scott Burns / March 11, 2012
Couch Potato Investing Income & Wealth Taxes Will the Real Tax Rate Please Stand Up? Warren Buffett and Mitt Romney have something in common beyond wealth. Both pay federal income By Scott Burns / February 19, 2012
Better Spending Couch Potato Investing CP portfolio recipes Income & Wealth A Sloth’s Slick Progress In November we celebrated the 20th anniversary of Couch Potato investing, the power of sloth By Scott Burns / February 5, 2012
Retirement The Good Life Is also a Long Life Sarasota, Florida. There are, very roughly, three kinds of elderly people in America. There are By Scott Burns / January 27, 2012